Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:44 pm  

richie166 wrote:

The irony.

Rugby Union is now the no1 sport in France not football. Apart from 3 or 4 teams in ligue 1 the rest are on par with Wigan athletic.

Perpignan is a rugby league area Toulouse isn't.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:52 pm  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

Rugby Union is now the no1 sport in France not football. Apart from 3 or 4 teams in ligue 1 the rest are on par with Wigan athletic.

Perpignan is a rugby league area Toulouse isn't.

Perpignan is a big union strong hold as well as a league strong hold, in 2009 or 10 the Perpignan rugby union team had won the French national league or cup and it was major party time

it is possible for a city to support the two codes of rugby!

as for salfords' poor crowds, ive read before from a few Salford posters that the marketing before koucash took over was non existant! only one to blame for that

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:53 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Why should the RFL give these pathetic little pit villages and wool and cotton mill towns from the 19th century a chance? Their glory days are long gone. Halifax has less than 100,000 residents. Featherstone has less than 20,000.

Toulouse is aerospace and hi-tech, it is the 21st century. Toulouse is a big city with over 1.2 million residents, a lot of money and a lot of rugby fans. It can make money. Toulouse is the future.

You and your Halifax and Featherstone are just Steptoe and Son. Sod off you sad old geezers!

Maybe because these “pathetic” little villages produce the future English players who will try to overhaul the Aussies.

Or perhaps we could go down the Ryder Cup route and have an Australia v Europe World Cup final .

Or maybe not, as England are having to play a bunch of average antipodeans as a mid-season international, because the Catalans have continued to stack their side full of those said antipodeans, hence the French national team has actually gone backwards over the years.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:01 pm  

The Devil's Advocate wrote:

Maybe because these “pathetic” little villages produce the future English players who will try to overhaul the Aussies.

Or perhaps we could go down the Ryder Cup route and have an Australia v Europe World Cup final .

Or maybe not, as England are having to play a bunch of average antipodeans as a mid-season international, because the Catalans have continued to stack their side full of those said antipodeans, hence the French national team has actually gone backwards over the years.

Quite

France finished last in the 2008 World Cup didn't they?

Now that really is a demonstration of going backwards.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:01 pm  

** Double post **

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:01 pm  

number 6 wrote:

Perpignan is a big union strong hold as well as a league strong hold, in 2009 or 10 the Perpignan rugby union team had won the French national league or cup and it was major party time

it is possible for a city to support the two codes of rugby!

as for salfords' poor crowds, ive read before from a few Salford posters that the marketing before koucash took over was non existant! only one to blame for that

Salford's poor crowds are due to Salfords poor team and countless poor teams they've had for the past 30 years, yeah it's one persons fault alright, as they say you can't promote poop the only way even proper marketing will work if their is a good team on the field to market.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:04 pm  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

Salford's poor crowds are due to Salfords poor team and countless poor teams they've had for the past 30 years, yeah it's one persons fault alright, as they say you can't promote poop the only way even proper marketing will work if their is a good team on the field to market.

so why aren't hudds getting double figure crowds or near?

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:08 pm  

number 6 wrote:

so why aren't hudds getting double figure crowds or near?

Don't know you better ask the Huddersfield fans that? I know on a personal level why Salford's crowds are crap and its nothing to do with lack interst in Rugby league as a sport. It's not wanting to be associated with crap.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:40 pm  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

The game is a forgone conclusion every year same teams in the top 7 only ever been 4 different winners since the league started 17 years ago

Pointless argument. Only 4 different winners of the Premier League in the last 17 years and football seems to be doing ok.

Re: Toulouse : Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:46 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote: Actually Toulouse has 6-8 times the population of Hull. It further reinforces your valid point. Get your facts right: http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/france-c ... lation.htm "As of February 2004 estimates, the population of the city proper reached 426,700 inhabitants" http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_p ... ema=PORTAL "The latest mid-year population estimates produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate that 263,900 persons were present in Hull on 30 June 2010"

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote: Actually Toulouse has 6-8 times the population of Hull. It further reinforces your valid point. Get your facts right: http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/france-c ... lation.htm "As of February 2004 estimates, the population of the city proper reached 426,700 inhabitants" http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_p ... ema=PORTAL "The latest mid-year population estimates produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate that 263,900 persons were present in Hull on 30 June 2010"